Professional Tennis
Four-time AEGON Championships champion Andy Roddick was defeated in the second round of the Wimbledon warm-up event on Wednesday by France’s Edouard Roger-Vasselin, 6-4, 4-6, 7-5, ranked 67th in the world. After various injuries, Roddick has fallen out of the top 30 in the ATP Tour rankings. Roddick has now lost 11 out of 18 matches he has played…
Lleyton Hewitt and David Goffin both have been given wild cards into Wimbledon 2012. Hewitt was the 2000 U.S. Open Men’s Doubles Champion, and captured the men’s singles titles at the 2001 U.S. Open and 2002 Wimbledon. Goffin, from Belgium, lost to Roger Federer but took a set off the number three-ranked Federer at the 2012…
The Spanish Tennis Federation has announced that the Davis Cup by BNP Paribas World Group Semifinal between the U.S. and Spain will be held on an outdoor red clay court at the Parque Hermanos Castro in Gijon, Spain. The semifinal tie will be held Sept. 14-16. The U.S. and Spain have met 10 times in…
The top-seeded doubles team of Max Mirnyi of Belarus & Daniel Nestor of Canada defeated Bob & Mike Bryan, 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday to win their second consecutive French Open doubles title together. If the Bryans had won, they would have set a record for most in the Open era. They were looking to win…
Tickets to the 2012 U.S. Open to the general public are now available, as the event is set to be played at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y., Monday, Aug. 27-Sunday, Sept. 9. Arthur Ashe Kids’ Day, presented by Hess, a full-day tennis and music festival for children and families, will…
Rafael Nadal once again prevailed on the clay courts of Roland Garros, defeating world number one-ranked Novak Djokovic in four sets, 6-4, 6-3, 2-6, 7-5, in a two-day, rain-filled 2012 French Open Finals match. The match began Sunday in Paris, spanned over the course of two days with several weather-related stoppages before Nadal won the…
On Saturday, Russian Maria Sharapova completed her career Grand Slam with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Italy’s Sara Errani. Sharapova won in Wimbledon in 2004, the U.S. Open in 2006 and the Australian Open in 2008, and four years later, the 2012 French Open women’s singles title. She is only the 10th woman to attain…
John Isner relishes the notion of serving for an Olympic Gold Medal against a woman, and it could happen at the 2012 London Games. Mixed-doubles is back and the 6-foot 9-inch Isner is ready to play. His only previous mixed-doubles experience came in the Hopman Cup where he remembers facing Justine Henin in the final, a…
For the third straight time in a Grand Slam final, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal will meet on Sunday in the finals of the 2012 French Open. On Friday, Djokovic defeated world number three-ranked Roger Federer 6-4, 7-5, 6-3 in Paris to set up his historic encounter with the world number two-ranked Nadal, where either Nadal will…
Seeded second, despite winning six titles at the French Open, Rafael Nadal once again proved to have too much power and drive for his close friend, David Ferrer, who was bidding to reach a Grand Slam final for the first time in what was his 37th campaign. Nadal was victorious on Friday at Roland Garros,…